I lived through the new scope curse, now it's the accessory curse. The day after I get my new Rigel Quickfinder mounted it gets cloudy. <br><br>On the plus...
As promised at the meeting last night, here is the url for the UC Berkeley robotic telescope program. They are looking for amateur assistance for schools...
A good place to find out about current planet locations (as well as other interesting sky information) is at the Sky and Telescope site. The URL is:<br><br><a...
I received a letter from Mr. Tanguay, editor and publisher of the newsletter "Double Star Observer". He underwent back surgery and ceased publishing the ...
I've done a little bit of observing the past 2 nights. It's been pretty clear. I set up in my back yard. My family is in town for Thanksgiving. We saw Jupiter,...
I got up this morning to look for the comet. It wasn't quite up yet so I found M104 magnitude 8 galaxy very easily from my back yard despite the street light....
Has anyone tried using last months finder charts for locating the Messier objects? Tena and I were able to locate half a dozen objects before she got too cold....
COMET C/2000 W1 (UTSUNOMIYA-JONES) is currently in Sagittarius headed toward M55. I went outside with my binoculars this evening after the sunset and I could...
I'm weighing my options stay warm or observe. I believe observing is starting to take precedence over warmth. It's been nearly a month since my scope was used ...
When Alan was out at Claude with me, I believe that he was using his star charts, rather than the finder charts that you brought to the last meeting. I haven't...
The following is an EXTRACT of portions of a letter from the United States Naval Observatory Astrometry Department 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC...
2000 Dec. 8:05: m1=6.9:, Dia.=~5', DC=3-4, ... 20 cm reflector ... Alan Hale (20 km west of Las Cruces, New Mexico) [low altitude, bright moonlight; also some...
I found the comet from my garage tonight. As soon as I found it I tried to get a picture, but I still have that problem of focusing after putting the camera ...
The white strobe light that bothered us during the picnic at BLNWR is now permanently red and is not much of a bother. However Christmas lights in towns 20...
Per the weather on KVII, it appears to be more likely to have early clouds E of I 27, than W of I 27, so I think I will go to BLNWR instead of Claude....
I've thought of a way of solving my problem of finding faint objects again after moving the scope to a bright object to focus through the camera: a second ...
For me there is too much snow over too much mud to go to Claude tonight. BLNWR is closed due to snow, so I will observe from some local park where the snow has...
Have you seen the finder brackets that use only one set of screws, and they use two screws and a spring-loaded set point for the third? I do not recall if I ...
I'd like to take you up, but I'm waiting for UPS to get around to delivering my new 120mm this eve. Their tracking says that it's been in Amarillo since ...
I found the comet this morning at 5:30am. It's reported to be magnitude 7.8. Perihelion was Dec. 13 at 1.17AU. It will dim as it heads for the pole. It will be...
I forgot to mention that I found the comet from my back yard, despite the light that lights up the back yard. I'm going to try moving the scope to the front...
I viewed the comet again this morning. I got up at 5:00am, had to polar align the mount, set screw the motors on, etc. Found the comet right off, not changed...
I posted the pictures I took last night of the comet. They're not spectacular, but...<br>The comet appeared green in the pictures and there was one star in the...
